Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992

Variable Details

Variablevbc2b
LabelWHERE - SPEAKING CLEARLY
Question text People have a variety of skills. Some they use at work, others they use elsewhere. Some they are good at, others they are less good at. Some abilities and skills they have improved with practice, others they have not. How good are you at the skills listed below? Please answer questions a) b) and c) for each skill. Where do you make use of this skill? At work only, both at work and elsewhere, elsewhere but not at work, or not at all?
Responses
1 Used at work 348
2 Used elsewhere 170
3 Used at both 991
4 Not used 35
5 Don't have skill 3
-3 Not stated 20
Sysmiss 80
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Twenty-One-Year Sample Survey, 1992
Interviewer InstructionsPLEASE TICK ONE BOX IN COLUMN B BELOW FOR EACH SKILL.
UniverseA clustered 10% sample of all respondents to an earlier BCS70 follow-up, living in England and Wales during 1992, who were not known to have died, emigrated or refused.;National
SamplingOne-stage cluster sample;A simple random sample of the BCS70 cohort
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort